Your Quick Guide to the ISS-ABOVE

What is the ISS-Above?

Where is the Space Station right now? How fast it is going? When will it be in my skies. Can I see it? When? Who's on board?

These are just some of the questions that the ISS-ABOVE answers. When you have one in your home, school or office, it's an ever-present reminder of the International Space Station (ISS), its location, the humans onboard, the view of the Earth “from there” and facts and figures about this most significant of human scientific achievements.

The International Space Station in its orbit. The view shows one and a half orbits - yellow tracks are daylight, blue are darkness. The red dot is your location.

The ISS-ABOVE is an electronic device that brings the Space Station to your TV. With informational screens and live views of Earth from external cameras, you’ll discover:

On Jun 21 2015 the International Space Station made a visual pass across southern California and it passed very close to Venus, Jupiter and the Moon.

Here is the pass data from heavens-above.com This video is REAL TIME - captured using a Sony EX3 camera set on a slow shutter mode where each frame is a combination of 16 frames.

The Space Station passes you by 5-8 times every single day

When and where to look to see the Space Station - it's visible when the solar panels catch the light, so around dusk and dawn. The ISS-Above tells you when and where to look, both by flashing like crazy and displaying information about the pass on the info screens

Who’s up there right now - each Expedition typically had a crew of 6 and lasts 6 months. Three astronauts change out every 3 months so there's continuity for the crew

What the orbit of the Space Station looks like and where it is right now - at a glance you can see the ISS image on the world map. As the ISS always travels from West to East, you'll be able to see when it is in darkness, when in daylight and what part of the Earth it's over right now

Lots of stats and data about the Space Station

What the astronauts see when they look out of the cupola - the ISS-ABOVE streams live video from the external cameras on the Space Station whenever the ISS is in sunlight. That's 46 minutes out of every 92.

People have sat silent on my sofa with their hands over their mouths – staring at this unprecedented achievement of mankind.

— Whitefish, MT

Some views from the ISS (as displayed on your TV by the ISS-ABOVE)

What's Special About the ISS?

The International Space Station (ISS) is the only human-habitable environment off the surface of the Earth. It's also one of the biggest single human scientific achievements.

Crew missions started in 2000 conducting experiments, making observations and adding to our knowledge about how to survive in space and contributing to all kinds of scientific breakthroughs in many areas.

ISS is larger than a six-bedroom house

ISS has an internal pressurized volume equal to a Boeing 747

The solar array wingspan 240 ft, is longer than a Boeing 777

Fifty-two computers control the systems on the ISS

More than 115 space flights were conducted during the station’s construction

More than 100 telephone-booth-sized rack facilities operate the spacecraft systems and research experiments

The ISS weighs almost one million pounds - equivalent of more than 320 automobiles

The ISS is almost the length of a football field including the end zones

3.3 million lines of software code on the ground support 1.8 million lines of flight software code.

Liam Kennedy - why he invented the ISS-ABOVE!

It blinks.. and tweets... and displays live views of the earth from the ISS. It's pretty much mission control for the ISS on your own TV. Close to 900 of these devices are already in use around the world. It's Bill Nye The Science Guys - "Latest Obsession" (see below). Get one and find out why.